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Don't get me wrong! I like McDonald's as much as the next person. I also like how much better it looks in anime. In Japan, the service at McDonald's, and any another fast food restaurant, is generally quite good.

The new game in the Danganronpa series, New Danganronpa V3, was announced at last year's Tokyo Game Show for the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita. During the Danganronpa Press Conference in September of last year, Spike Chunsoft announced th...

Square Enix announced it will launch Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness for PlayStation 4 this summer in North America and Europe during its first "Star Log" live stream. The western release will feature both English and Japanese audio.

An early look at 4/8 issue of Young Animal magazine, out in Japan March 25th, has revealed the staff and cast for the new anime adaptation of Kentaro Miura's fantasy horror Berserk, slated to run on the MBS late-night Animeism block and satelite b...

IBM held a press event for its "Sword Art Online: The Beginning" virtual reality demonstration on Thursday. Japanese game news websites Inside Games and 4Gamer posted photos of the demonstration area, as well as the virtual reality demonstration i...

The Tokyo Anime Award Festival has been celebrating the anime industry since 2002. All anime that aired between November 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015. Here are this year's winners: Theatrical Anime of the Year - Love Live!

Whether you're into pink frills or black one-piece dresses, there's a knife here for you! Despite changes in fashion trends, lolitas and goth lolitas have managed to maintain a certain presence in Japanese pop culture for about as long as we can r...

Bandai Namco revealed that their upcoming anime for the Tales series' 20th anniversary, Tales of Zestiria the X by ufotable, will begin broadcasting in Japan in summer 2016. [Thanks, @yinyi982 via Game Jouhou.

Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli on every film since 1997's Princess Mononoke, will go open-source and available for free starting March 28. The software, renamed OpenToonz, will contain the custom Ghibli Edition developed by th...

This Easter, Madokami is gracing Japan's Lawson convience stores with a Madoka Magica Soul Gem Egg promotion that includes clearfiles, buttons and other goodies at this weekend's AnimeJapan, prizes for helping get the word out, limited bromide car...

Japan is working on a Manga National Center project as one of its "Cool Japan" strategies. The key feature of the project is a plan to open a museum to collect and exhibit such items as original artwork from Japanese manga and anime that are popul...

Following the successful first set released in June 2015, Bandai's apparel division releases the second set of deodorant waters inspired by the seven popular characters from the Kuroko's Basketball anime series.

McDonald's The recruitment ad makes working at McDonald's look really stressful. McDonald's wants to hire more Millennials as part-time staff in Japan, so it created an anime mini-series to help drum up interest.

MAGES. head Chiyomaru Shikura (the creator of the science adventure series Steins;Gate) has a new TV anime in the works. The series will be based on his light novel series, which is titled Occultic;Nine, which has been described as a "paranormal s...

By Sato . March 22, 2016 . 5:45am Sega revealed the latest details on their upcoming PlayStation 4 rhythm game, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone, with details on two versions that the game is getting when it releases later this year.

By Jenni . March 22, 2016 . 10:30am The Resident Evil series is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. As a means of honoring the horror games, Capcom has been celebrating with game remasters, rereleases, and retrospectives.

One of Japan's greatest contributions to literature is the haiku, a type of poem which has 17 syllables in a five-seven-five pattern. A contest was recently held in Japan for haikus (not to be confused with the volleyball manga, Haikyuu!

Bandai Namco and Granzella shared the latest on their collaboration survival-action adventure game, City Shrouded in Shadow, with a peek at what appears to be an EVA Unit silhouette from Evangelion in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine.

With Viz Media bringing the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime adaptation to DVD and Blu-ray, an English dub is currently in the works. Viz revealed the main members of the dub cast during their panel at this past weekend's C2E2 event, so see who's playin...

Today new promotional videos for the upcoming anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable hit screens across Japan. Three screens, that is. The videos debuted on large screens outside major train stations across the countr...

Koei Tecmo revealed their ninth and final character introduction trailer with one for Kasumi, the runaway shinobi and former member of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, who debuted in the very first Dead or Alive game.

Bandai Namco Games' One Piece: Burning Blood is bringing 3-on-3 brawling action to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PS Vita in North America on May 31, with a PC version and European launch to follow in June.

There is only a very short time left until the start of the Spring 2016 season and if you haven't seen what there is to offer, be quick. To make it easier on what you should be watching, Japanese fans have been hard at work picking their most anti...

During the "Phantasy Star Thanksgiving 2016" event that is being held today, Sega and Square Enix announced a collaboration between Phantasy Star Online 2 and Final Fantasy XIV. The announcement of the "dream collaboration" was made on a giant scr...

The anime adaptation of "Natsume's Book of Friends" is not going anywhere. The animated television show based on the popular manga series with the same title recently got renewed for a Season 5 expected to premiere this coming fall.

By Casey . March 20, 2016 . 3:30pm Those of you who play Final Fantasy XIV have more than likely run into a person with an adorably-chubby Fat Cat minion in tow, or perhaps you own one yourself. In addition, you may also be familiar with the giant...

Another trailer has run amok for the upcoming Hentai Kamen: The Abnormal Crisis movie, promising watchers more hilarious perversions than ever before, that will no doubt have some reconsidering their opinion on exhibitionists (others not so much).

With the current Fairy Tail TV anime already about to air its final episode this 26 March, the 17th issue of this year's Shounen Sunday magazine has revealed that a new Fairy Tail TV anime project is now in the works.